US veteran campaigns against Iraq war 13-Dec-07

[josephoreilly6]

he was an idiot to believe the stuff about 911. jews rule the usa

[Emyousmusa]

You know what really gets me, is that alot of democrates, and rebublicans don't fucking get a clue, they don't seem to put two and two together they just blame another instead of excepting that there all fucked.

I don't get it, our government can drop trillions/hundred of billions to give to bankers, people who sit behind desk, but when it comes to people who fight in our wars, they don't give a damn about those soldiers by means of giving retro active billions of dollars, so wake up people.

[meisterrain]

THANK YOUR PRESIDENT FOR TAKING AWAY YOUR LEGS! now do you still know what you fought for Poor kid.

[theOldInfidel]

typical al jizzeera propaganda!! for every U.S. vet who protests the Iraq war, i'll show you a THOUSAND who support it & another THOUSAND Iraqis who are glad we're trying to help protect them from the Al Queda suicide bombers.

[canadianroot]

what complete and total drivel.

[IBTMorimoto]

stop watching fox news

[connect4raza]

DOWN WITH the EVIL,BARBARIC AND ACOPOLYPTIC REGIMES of U.S.A AND ISRAEL.LONG LIVE HEZBOLLAH LONG LIVE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN.DEATH TO the INHUMANE ZIONIST REGIMES OF U.S.A AND ISRAEL AND THEIR AGENTS ISLAMIC TRAITORS AND HYPOCRITES.LABAYAIK YA HEZBOLLAH LABAYAIK YA NASRALLAH.

[connect4raza]

DEATH to THE UNITED SUCKS OF AMERICA AND ITS ILLEGITIMATE SON ISRAEL.

[connect4raza]

AL-QAEDA is a PROXY OF THE ZIONIST JEWS and their puppets,to DO terror attacks THROUGHOUT the WORLD through their agents in order to MALIGHN ISLAM and MUSLIMS and MUSLIM COUNTRIES in order to INVADE THEIR COUNTRY TO STEAL their WEALTH,OIL nd other natural resources.ALQAEDA is a creation of THESE ZIONISTS ND THEIR PUPPETS.

[vocalbrush]

good video,and it's truly sad that soldiers have been reduced to tickers on a tv screen while fraudulent drama queens are all over them 24/7.

[bsjaxtime]

American's especially veterans should know better! A bunch of scum insurgent supporters! You may hate the war but to actively create video & promote defeat of troops in harms way is giving aid & comfort to the insurgents. You stab our solders in the back! I guess in the war of hearts & minds you are clearly on the side of insurgents. Makes me ashamed that I may have served with some of you. Weak minded cowards, next time they kill a solder remember that it is you they are trying to encourage!

[mPalestine]

no one deserved this ending...but they brought it to thimselves.

nothing good comes from WAR

[bebepix]

Question! Did U.S. backed, Turkish jets caring out three strikes on Kurdistan , over the past eight days. If not then, what is U.S. doing in Iraq. U.S. should fulfill its "moral and legal commitment to protect the country's sovereignty and defend the Iraqi people." Who is in charge !

[exenrontexas]

The question is who ordered those attacks. They are responsible. It COULD be BUSH but not necessarily. Example: at one time or another Conservative Republicans in the US government sponsored or encouraged supporting...Saddam, Osama, the Taliban and most of America's enemies. The US assassinated the ONLY freely elected president of SOUTH Vietnam. The CIA put Saddam in power and Ronald Reagan called Osama and al Qaeda to be freedom fighters. Also the US often backs opposing forces in conflicts.

[otto1882]

Thank you Bush and all the others responsible(you too Hillary) for another ruined life.

[MustafaPresents]

This generation of Americans wants endless war, less taxes, and 52" big screens.

[primal111]

war is wrong,full stop.try orgonite and wake up...its free..

[zoltangrossman]

Any vets, reservists or active-duty GIs who feel the same way about the war can join up with others in the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). Their families can find others in Military Families Speak Out (MFSO). Those of us who are neither can help out these groups instead of putting all our faith in another presidential election.

[primal111]

get orgonite into the barracks,heaps of it then it would wake up the offices...it works..want some i give it a way

[95key]

There will always be war even if we unite to stop war and/or go to war to stop war. Discover unity in our chaotic world, just like our DNA, they are operating in our chaotic body but they are operating in unity. In mathematics there is fractal geometry check it out, it is chaos but you can see the unity. One drop in an ocean of unity operating with unique identity.

[primal111]

you are wrong they will be no more wars ever, soon, try my orgonite and you will see the truth,its free want some....

[95key]

well that is how much your mind can think and this is you, but go deeper in your mind you might find some jewels rather than stones.

best wishes

[primal111]

Thats where you go wrong its not about the mind at all,Thats your down fall,wake up or you sleep forever....orgonite is the truth giver...

[95key]

Ok sorry for using my mind to answer your comments. You can use any other part of your body to think and reflect, but I am going to use my mind. Last comment thanks

[primal111]

good because you are full of your self you think you are above every one and you are not and never will be,And thats where you will stay in your mind because you can not use your heart...End of story.....

[nicholas9999]

this really gets the point across. good job.

[kelseysthecause]

As always Aljazeera you bring a perspective not found much in north america. Superb piece!!

[saadasim]

Nickel-and-Diming Our Wounded: Iraq Vet Forced to Pay Back Army Bonus

huffingtonpost dot com/paul-rieckhoff/nickelanddi­ming-our-wou_b_74360.html

[mavtek]

Huhm and people wonder why Ron Paul is against the war in Iraq.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

i do not disagree with all of ron paul's policies, as he presents some positive reform ideas, but at the end of the day he is supporting a system skewed to eltie state economic/political power where there is nothing to hold them back.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

kucinich and gravel were presenting the only platforms that i belive would bring lasting peace to the US and work towards bring a functioning democracy back to the US people, and away from the elites.

[mavtek]

Wow I haven't heard that before! Shocking, Ron Paul is the only man in Congress who is shunned by the lobbyist. He depends solely on individual contributions to his congressional campaign. Considering he calls for the end to all the spending overseas, and all corporate subsidies one must wonder what you exactly you mean.

[nicholas9999]

mavtek: "he is supporting a system skewed to elite state economic/political where there is nothing to hold them back." When RP talks about _reducing_ the size of the central gov't, he is talking about enabling corporate power without even the crap limits they now have, hence, no enforcement of antitrust, no blocking of mergers, and on and on. Economic disparity will worsen, competition will suffer, etc.

[mavtek]

Oh I thought the big problem with corporate power was that the largest companies were able to actually buy Congress. Hence get subsidies and laws and regulations geared toward helping them screw us over more. For instance all these wonderful copywright laws geared to file swappers. I find it interesting that companies can now easily get what so many have thought was private on their own computer.

[nicholas9999]

mavtek: The corporate sector has way way too much influence over the congress, as well as the executive. It's a very bad situation, in which oligopoly is allowed to grow, as Congress engages in "regulation," as opposed the busting up that facilitates a rough-and-tumble capitalism in the country. Stopping this trend is going to take a really really big change in the posture of the central gov't toward the corporate sector.

[mavtek]

Oh and you think Ron Paul's solution is incorrect? I think his solution is the only one that maybe correct. No more special subsidies or rules for Corps, no more uncontrolled lobbying. Sure one has to wonder if Monopolies could be an issue, but one has to wonder how companies are allowed to become monopolies as all Mergers have to be approved by the SEC. I'm not so quick to blame our Oligarchy on the corporations. It was the existing government who allowed them to do this.

[nicholas9999]

mavtek: Actually, the idea of no special subsidies is great, as it is the smaller corporations we should be wanting to see gain some traction in a genuinely capitalistic environment. What we need is a strong central gov't who views itself as an adversary of the oligopolistic interests. No one is to blame, it's just a natural evolution that has occurred.

[mavtek]

Oh so maybe you just don't know anything about Ron Paul and his ideas regarding government?

[nicholas9999]

mavtek: Ron Paul appears to want a smaller central government and a very hands-off policy regarding the business sector. I don't think that will work. I think the corporate sector is too powerful.

[otto1882]

As if the current hands-on policy regarding the business sector..

[nicholas9999]

otto: I think you meant to say "as if the current hands-on policy is working"?? I don't think it's working. I think it needs to be fixed, just like the tax code, and other things about the gov't.

[mavtek]

Furthermore what controls would you like to put in to inhibit corporations from making controls to inhibit their own competition? As it stands now it would seem like large corps actually use tax payer money to make sure they destroy all competitors. Hence why Oil is so big and Ethanol and Solar are out in the cold.

I don't see more government as the answer, much of the government is controlled by these greedy corporations.

So to you Ron Paul's answer isn't good enough, who's is?

[nicholas9999]

mavtek: As it stands, I believe the awareness of what is going on is slowly catching on. Enforcement of the antitrust laws, where applicable, would be a start toward restoring capitalism. But it is the general attitude of congress in general that needs to be addressed. There is no other way to handle it than continuing to make the citizens aware of what's going on, IMO, and for different people to be elected to public office.

[mavtek]

I agree so what don't you like about Ron Paul's solution?

[nicholas9999]

mavtek: It's the laissez faire capitalism idea I don't believe will work as it relates to the hundreds of largest companies, as I say in a comment above here. Interestingly, the EU anti-trust people are now standing up to Microsoft. I wish we could see more of that in the U.S. The FCC is trying to fix it so a single entity could own electronic media and newspaper in the same market. It's insane and should be stopped.

[scorpiooooooh]

If America is becomming an empire, is it a result of creating global corporate colonies. These corporate colonies were meant to help out countries at risk of becomming communist. Once those colonies were "settled" so to speak, it created a global economic network that America has to protect. There is a lot of competition for natural resources out there, some with unquenchable thirsts for resources. 2cents

[jklasdfjdfksl]

the threat was never "communism" to the US elite, just as the threat now is not "terror". these are just buzz words to scare and lie the public into a patriotic furvor, with tragic results such as iraq and this man's story. the real threat to the US elite is development outside of their total control. vietnam is not nearly as important strategically and economically as iran, that is why top US political/economic elites are setting up permanent bases.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

they will not pull out on their own accord like in vietnam. in vitenam they destroyed the country and stunted development. iraq requires that they continually control the resources, the iraqis then suppossed to suffer in another huge prison; think palestine on a larger scale. that seems to be the long term planning.

[scorpiooooooh]

Your points are taken, but I ask this, are wars started over economics, or ideological differences? Is one catalyst developed to promote the other or is it a result of a domino effect? War between societies is apparently inevitable, almost as if it can not be avoided. No one likes war, but the human species has never had much luck eradicating it from societies. There must be some way to break down the conditions that lead to war into an equation. What are the factors?

[crapidious]

scorpiooooh, I would say economics ( chiefly oil) was definitely the main reason for the war in Iraq. Ostensibly, it started as a response to Osama Bin Laden`s attacks; but why Iraq, who, pre-war, had no connection to him? Robert Mugabe is one of the worst tyrants living today, but is left to his own devices. Why? is it because zimbabwe is of no use to the globalists?

[blanker1977]

Yeah, lets give all the kids of America AK-47's to help spread US Imperialism! Let's in the name of freedom expropriate all those riches from sovereign nations so that America can use them for their self serving needs! Yeah!

[blanker1977]

In anger he signed up to a crusade & it took a bullet in the spine for him to realise his philosophical mistake.

Harden the fuck up, is all I can say. You become the choices you make.

One positive is that the guy has finally found enlightenment. Shame the road took such a personal cost.

[jklasdfjdfksl]

it seems like you may be guilty of the same anger. no one should suffer like this becasue of lies servicing the people not fighting. i agree with you that it is a bad moral choice on his part, but your lack of compassion can only spread more hatred and misundertanding. the world is not as simple for you to say that whatever wrong happens to someone is always completely their fault.

[blanker1977]

Anger is a strong emotion. I'm not angry. I just think its hypocritical that this guy lead by emotion join the military to kill & maim others & only after serious harm is inflected on himself did he stop to investigate the broader issues. Perhaps if the guy though beyond himself & his own perspective he wouldn't have put himself in danger in the first place. The true information was out there, the international community new it, he just had to look for it. Its called 'googling'.

[blanker1977]

In anger he signed up to a crusade & it took a bullet in the spine for him to realise his philosophical mistake.

Harden the fuck up, is all I can say. You become the choices you make.

One positive is that the guy has finally found enlightenment. Shame the road took such a personal cost.

[eapsystems]

This guy has guts. He deserves way better than he's getting. This is exactly why we need Ron Paul in the White House. He's a veteran himself---he gets it! A strong defense is everything. Playing games in countries where we have no business is Bullsh*t.

[Squarerig]

This young man is showing more courage in his fight back against a corrupt and cynical administration than many a man has shown on the field of battle.Bring the boys home-NOW!

[practicespeaking]

I like how he stated that if he was wounded in the war that he thought he was enlisting in, he would just sit back, you know, wars have cost. But he was wounded in a war that the US has no business being a part of, and if it wasn't for a corrupt and lying administration, he would be in full health.

[2naname3]

The video starkly and simply shows what the realities of war are on the wounded who struggle mentally and physically to carry on their lives, lives forever changed by an illegal, unjust war perpetrated upon us by the Bush Administration and the "gung-ho", self-serving corporate media. Shame on them!!!